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4 thoughts on “Tiny Terrorists! Run!”

The bit that really gets me about this monumentally moronic un-think is that it is happening in schools.

Although still unacceptabe, it might be understandable that Kafkaesqe conditions are imposed on people by functionaries in offices that are far remote from those people.
To have this happening in *educational* establisments – and imposed by teachers – is an obscenity.
While this might create a generation of people incapable of reason, it could also have the effect of alienating the most intelligent children from society.

On your article “Tiny Terrorists!–“. I think all of the instances you pointed out of children being reprimanded are alarmist and silly. But I do have a comment about the boys pointing fingers and shooting at eachother.

It is never to early to preach about gun safety. Although they were only fingers it isn’t beyond the concept of firearm safety to not allow pretend shooting. After all one of the ten commandments of gun safety is to never point a gun at anything you don’t intend to shoot. The concept of when it is ok to shoot a person is sometimes a little above and beyond the reasoning ablities of small children. So until my wife and I think our son is ready for that concept we have a blanket policy of we don’t allow pretend shooting especially at people.

I understand that pretend shooting is innocent enough but instilling good firearm safety ideals is more important.

I wonder where kids learn that ‘pointing finger and pow’.
Is this a knowledge handed down from older children? Is it a natural acting out of seeing guns used in movies and TV news?
I do remeber as a child, seeing boys (it was always the boys) being told not to point (toy) guns directly at others. They were told to aim off. I don’t remember this being on the level of suspensions from school.

If we are to have toy guns and Hello Kitty bubble guns, the logical gun-safety move is to have working safety catches on them.
Instructing children to aim off would not sem to be a good idea if the state of society is such that children when grown to adults will be moved out of reasonably-based fear to carry weapons at all times. In that environment, their automatic response should be to aim true at all times.

My parents were educated and kind of semi-lefties so their default attitudes were anti-gun. I was just a kid who liked guns instinctively. They certainly were not going to get one for me; so a friend and I who had similar parentage – and access to a machine-shop – quickly found ways of making them. If you are sort of smart and have good spatial intelligence and access to modern medal products… this is shockingly easy to do, btw.
My parents grasped the meaning of this and got me a good .22LR for my next birthday. For the next several years I would spend my allowance mostly on 500 round bricks. I got pretty good at hitting things.
If I said that the .22LR they got for me was a Remington Nylon 66, I would seriously date myself, so I will not. But I still have it and imho no better plinker has ever been made, at least until Bill Ruger came along.
When I was in H.S, there was a Show and Tell day. I brought one of my home-built firearms and was allowed to explain the design principles and the material choices involved in its manufacture. Several adult male teachers praised my work in front of class.
I really miss my country.
I really miss my country.